Is it a Dream, or a Vision?

For Most, There is a Difference ...

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”
― C.G. Jung

Dreams occur while the body is sleeping and resting, We can have special abilities in dreams, even magical ones: flying, being invisible, reading minds, and some even visit with loved ones who have passed on.

Dreams are pretty much universal for everyone. But dreams, even frightening nightmares, are fleeting. They don’t usually stay long in our memory.

The biggest differences are seen when we’re given a vision. It’s the Universe showing, teaching, or prophesying a message meant only for us. Visions can also occur while a person is awake and conscious, either through a trance-like state or with eyes open.

Visions are like our wakeful reality, or when we are asleep —it’s like we’ve turned around and walked through a doorway to a place like home and our senses came with us:

—>Walking through a pine forest, you can smell the pine, or pungent leaves on the ground, and you hear birds singing.

—>You step on a twig, feel it beneath your foot and if it breaks, you feel and hear it snap. If you smell the broken twig it has the woody scent of the tree it came from.

—>At a raging river you can hear the rapids, feel the mist on your face, and if you put your hand in the water, it feels cool as it rushes over your fingers.

—>If you’re riding a horse, you can smell the horse sweat and the leather saddle, hear the pounding of the hooves, and feel the wind blowing your hair.

—>In a vision you can feel pain. It’s real. If the horse throws you to the ground, or a branch suddenly slaps your cheek —both bring pain. If you bite your tongue, or cheek, you can taste blood.

Those are mainly what separate dreams from visions. Visions stay in our memory, sometimes for many years, and they are purposeful.

Both have information and insight to offer us, a vision might feel like a moment of realization or clarity.

Dreams are more self reflective and fleeting.

“Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
― Jay Shetty

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